Meet Judge G. Todd Baugh, who sentenced the 54-year old rapist of a 14-year old girl to serve a 30-day jail sentence.
See, even though the rapist was 40 years older than the victim, Cherice Morales, and was in a position of authority over her (he was a teacher), the judge felt that the teenager was “as much in control of the situation” as her rapist as well as "older than her chronological age." Granted, we don't really know Cherice's feelings on the matter, seeing as how she killed herself just before her 17th birthday.
This case has been repugnant from the beginning. The rapist, former teacher Stacey Dean Rambold, was sentenced in 2008 to 15 years for one count of sexual intercourse without consent but was allowed the ridiculous option of completing a sex-offender treatment course in order to have the charges completely dismissed--travesty of justice to the world, an incredible gift he was not remotely worthy of to Rambold. However, turns out, Rambold is just a sick son of a bitch because he couldn't even take advantage of the utterly undeserved gift he had been given--he was kicked out of the program. For failing to be a decent human in spite of being given chances he was utterly unworthy of, Rambold was again prosecuted in order to see him serve his original sentence.
Enter Judge G. Todd Baugh. Baugh decided that even though Rambold was not smart, savvy or mentally well enough to take his previous "Get-Out-of-Jail" card and go, he surely didn't deserve to actually pay for his crime. He sentenced the convicted sex offender to the 15 years but suspended all but 31 days of it--and then gave him one day's credit for time already served, bringing his total jail time to 30 days.
It takes longer to get a passport.
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